Elevator and endless carrier



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P. NBWCOMER. ELEVATOR AND ENDLRSS CARRIER.

No. 444,540. Patented Jan. 13, 1891.

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P. NEWCOMER. BLEVATOR AND ENDLSS CARRIER.

No. 444,540. l Patented Jam. 1.3, 1891.

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PETER NE\VOOMER, OF DES MOINES, IOVA.

ELEVATOR AND ENDLESS CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,540, dated January 13, 1891.

Application filed December 17, 1888. Serial No. 293,840. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER NEWCOMER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented an Improved Elevator and Endless Carrier, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to facilitate the elevating and lowering of persons and property in buildings, mines, &c., and also to convey persons and property from one place to another.

My invention consists in the construction and combination of endless chains, traveling wheels, parallel tracks, suspended cages and cars, sprocket-wheels, and driving mechanism for mov'ing the chains, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents my invention as a fireescape and elevator in an opening extending vertically in a building. Fig. 2 is a top view of my device, showing two suspended cages or cars at some distance apart. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section of a chain having an arm and an axle and wheel combined therewith. Fig. 4 is a plan view at rightangles to Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a side view showing four suspended cages and the operating devices for moving them in vertical and also in horizontal planes.

A A represent upright timbers or posts in a building or frame. B B are track-rails xed thereto in pairs and horizontal and parallel at dierent points of elevation.

C C are endless drive-chains placed over sprocket-wheels D, which wheels are supported upon gudgeons fixed to the frame at points contiguous to the ends of the tracks B, as clearly shown in Fig. 4.

F are cross-bars or axles fixed to arms g, that are formed integral with links, as shown in Fig. 3, or in any suitable way, as required to connect the parallel endless chains at different points where cages or cars are to be attached, and also as required to carrya traveling wheel II at each end of' each axle, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The bars F are provided with journals on their ends, and the journals are slotted to admit the arms g, extending from the links, so that the links and bars can be rigidly connected by means of rivets or bolts. Shoulders on the inner ends of the journals and shoulders on the arms g to engage the outside faces of the wheels H retain the said wheels in proper position as they travel over the tracks B.

l 2 3 4 represent cages, cars, or carriages, that may vary in size and form, as desired, suspended from the cross-bars or axles F in such a manner that they will be carried up and down and back and forth horizontally and in succession as the endless chains are jointly moved by means of a driving mechanism combined therewith.

J is a gear-wheel fixed to the axle or hub of one of the sprocket-wheels D.

K is a driving-shaft connected with the wheel J by means of suitable gearing in such a manner that power can be transmitted from the driving-shaft to the wheels J and D, as required, to simultaneously move the parallel chains C, and thereby elevate and lower in succession the cages or cars suspended from the chains, or move them in opposite directions and in the same vertical plane, as required, to serve the purposes ot an endless or cable railway.

I claim as my inventionl. In an elevator and endless carrier, a cross-loarF, having slotted journals on its ends, traveler-wheels on said journals, and chainlinks having arms g fixed in the slots of said journals, arranged and combined in the manner set forth, for the purposes stated.

2. An elevator and carrier consisting ot a frame having horizontal rails or tracks at two different points of elevation and in the same vertical planes, cross-bars F, having slotted journals on their ends and traveler-wheels on the journals, the chains C, provided with links at intervals, having arms g fixed in the slotted journals, driving mechanism to actuate the said chains, and cages suspended from the cross-bars F, arranged and combined substantially as shown and described.

PETER NEIVCOMER.

'itnesses:

C. W. STILEs, THOMAS G. ORWIG.. 

